Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

Watch Hypnotic Animation About the Dawn of Life ‘Primodial’

Filmmaker Peter Clark looks at the dawn of life in this experimental animation that mixes photography, hand-painted film and CGI to create a hypnotic few minutes, where forms burst into life in various colors for a psychedelic interpretation of what the birth of existence may’ve been like for living beings.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

Cassetteboy Mashes Up the UK Political Establishment into a Satirical Rap

In the UK it’s a general election year which means there will be plenty of satire lampooning those in power—Cassetteboy starts the ball rolling with this hilarious mashup of clips of Prime Minister David Cameron, George Osborne, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage to promote Russell Brand’s new documentary ‘Emperor’s New Clothes.’

Friday, March 27th, 2015

The Bucket Board, a Skateboard Made from Trash

As part of a project with the World Wildlife Fund artist Mac Premo partnered with Sanford Shapes to create skateboard decks which are made entirely out of materials taken from a dumpster. In this film Mac explains the process and inspiration behind what he’s called the Bucket Board.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Tom Hanks and James Corden Act Out Every Tom Hanks Movie in 7 Minutes

The new host of The Late Late Show has won over the internet already, temporarily anyway, with this segment from his inaugural show which features him and Tom Hanks acting out Hanks’ back catalogue in front of a blue screen. It’s a frenetic 7 minutes as they dart between films, starting with Forest Gump and [...]

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

Watch Documentary ‘The Making of Predator’ and Learn How They Made this Action Classic

This 1987 documentary goes behind the scenes of the famous 80s action sci-fi movie, which looks at the on-location shooting, the practical effects they used, and the special FX artists who created the highly detailed predator design. It’s a fascinating insight into the movie and any fan of the film should stop what they’re doing [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

iNotRacist, a New App To Show Your Friends How Unracist You Are

There’s probably a hundred things a week you do that show how unracist you are, but does anyone see? Or do you ever get any credit for those actions? No, well now a new social media app hopes to change all that—iNotRacist lets you earn points for all the everyday not-racist things you do. You [...]

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

Luke’s Change: an Inside Job

Conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere (even in a galaxy far, far away). If the destruction of the Death Star at the end of A New Hope has always sat a bit fishy in your mind, something about it not quite right, then let this video stir the pot and stoke the flames of conspiracy so that you [...]

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

This Is What H.R. Giger’s Home Life Was Like

The artist who gave us the alien creature from the Alien franchise and much more died recently, so as an absurd homage to the great man why not watch this hilarious animation that imagines what the artist’s home life may’ve been like. But turn away now if you’re easily offended, because this really doesn’t hold [...]

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Watch the Awesome Pilot For Fan Made ‘Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope’

As CGI software and camera equipment gets more and more affordable without affecting the quality, fan made short films no longer need to look like they were filmed on your dad’s camcorder down at your local park (even if it was). As you’ll see from this pilot for the live-action web series Dragon Ball Z: [...]

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Guys Pick Up Girls Using Pornhub Comments, Cue Much Hilarity

In a bold, pretty stupid, but undeniably funny move the pranksters from Smooth Pranks take to the streets of Las Vegas to see what reactions they get when trying to pick up girls using comments made on Pornhub. Yep, it’s one way NOT to make friends and you have to wonder about the people who [...]

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Guy Prank Calls C-SPAN Pretending to be Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

This is probably the most interesting that C-SPAN has ever been, as a guy called up the Washington Journal program aired on the cable TV station pretending he wanted to talk about Congress and the Iran negotiations, but what he really wanted to do was much more fun and entertaining.